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This Is What A GOOD Resume Should Look Like:
Note: This is for a USfocused resume. CVs for India and other countries have differentexpectations, although many of the points will be the same.
Although the example here is a developer resume, almost all of these points (everything but #9and #11) apply to other positions as well.
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of your resume. When your resume is too long, it just takes your best stuff the stuff that wouldhave made the "one page cut" and dilutes it with more mediocre content. Lengthy resumes donot make you more impressive, and there are many other reasons to keep your resume short
too (http://blog.careercup.com/2011/01/eightreasonswhyyouneedaonepageresume/). Agood rule of thumb is to keep your resume to one page if you have less than 10 years ofexperience or at most two pages if you have more than 10 years of experience. And if you thinkyou can't get your resume to just one page, trust me, you can(http://blog.careercup.com/2011/01/lessismorehowicutmyresumetoonepage/)! You justneed to think about what is really important for a recruiter to see.
No Objectives: All an objective does is state, in a wordy way, what position you're interested in.The company already knows that because you applied for a particular position. At best, it'll justwaste space. At worst, it'll limit you since it'll exclude other positions that might have been
interesting to you.
Use a Resume Template with Columns: Unless you're great with design, you probablyshouldn't be creating your own resume template. It'll most likely look sloppy. Use a template,and make sure it has multiple columns. Using three columns, for example, will allow you to put
the company name, position, and date all on one line. This makes it easier to read and savesspace.
Use Tables: If you're using Microsoft Word to create your resume (which you probably should),use Microsoft Word's "tables." Just make sure to hide the borders afterwards.
Short Bullets: Because resume screeners only spend 15 30 seconds on your resume, lengthbullets anything that feels like a paragraph just won't get read. Keep your bullets to one totwo lines (with one line being better than two).
Accomplishment Oriented: Your bullets should focus on your accomplishments that is, theimpact you had rather than your responsibilities. What did you build, create, design, optimize,lead, etc?
Quantify: Whenever possible, you should quantify your accomplishments. If you optimizedsomething, by how much? If you won an award, out of how many people?
Resume: The general rule of thumb is to list your GPA if it's at least 3.0 or higher, but there aretwo important rules to know here: (1) You may choose to list your inmajor GPA if it's higherthan your overall GPA, but you need to specify that it's your inmajor GPA. (2) If your school
uses a different scale (such as a 10point scale), you may want to convert your GPA to a 4.0scale which will be more widely understood.
Projects: Most candidates should pick their top 3 5 projects to list on their resume. These canbe academic required project or independent projects. They do not need to be completed orlaunched either. As long as you've done a "meaty" amount of work on them, that's good
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Additional Experience: You can put additional experience, like leadership activities or awards,in a section like this (changing the name of the section depending on what you list). Be carefulhere to focus on what really matters. If you're applying for a coding role, your role as an eagle
scout in high school is probably not very important!
Languages and Technologies: It's a good idea to list your languages and technologies, butremember that anything you list here is "fair game" for the interviewer to test. If you want to lista language but you happen to be a bit rusty in it, consider listing it as something like: "C++
(Proficient), C# (Prior Experience), ..."
What did you NOT include?: Is there anything impressive / interesting that you've done thatyou left out? About 50% of candidates leave out an important project or other component of
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their experience because it wasn't finished / "official" / etc. If you've done it, and it's impressiveenough to "make the cut" (you shouldn't just list everything you've ever done), then it belongs onyour resume!
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